COMADEM 89 International : Proceedings of the First International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM)

RajB KNRao Conference Director, Birmingham Polytechnic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) is a relatively new field that has already made its mark in a wide range of industries. But all the signs are that even more will be required of researchers in the field over the next decade, for COMADEM directly addresses a whole range of issues that are likely to become increasingly important to companies as competitiveness increases along with the uncertainties resulting from rapid technological change. Already for example, businesses are having to scrutinize the economics of plant and machinery in greater detail than ever before; reliability is becoming a crucial factor as the costs of unscheduled breakdowns rise and there is increasing pressure on companies to demonstrate and assure improved health and safety conditions, especially in light of the growing number of catastrophic accidents that have occured throughout the world. Because it offers solutions to these and similar problems, COMADEM is now gaining an international reputation as a problem-solving, user-friendly and financially beneficial multi-discipline with immense potential. Many people at the senior management level are now convinced that COMADEM has much to offer and are wasting no time in reaping maximum benefit from the latest developments. The fact that the first UK informal seminar on COMADEM - COMADEM 88 - proved to be a great success and had a truly international flavour reflected this growing interest in the new field.

Key Note Lecture 1.- Total Quality in NDT and Condition Monitoring.- Key Note Lecture 2.- Condition-based Maintenance — Where to Next?.- Key Note Lecture 3.- Condition Monitoring in Manufacturing.- Machinery/Systems Health Monitoring.- Assessment of Symptom Limit Value in Vibration Condition Monitoring.- Turbomachinery Failure Detection — Combination of Transfer Matrix and Finite Element Method.- Diagnostic for Mechanical Systems through Analysing Variations in Vibration Signatures.- Identification and Digital Control of a Turbo-charged Marine Diesel Engine.- Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic of a Diesel Engine through Detecting Changes in Estimated Dynamic Models.- The Fulmer Method of Monitoring Fluid Abrasivity as an Indication of Fluid Condition and Machine Health.- Practical Gear Fault Diagnosis Using Vibration-based Methods.- COMPASS: A Generalized Ground-based Monitoring System.- Computer-Aided Machine Health Monitoring.- A Revolution in Rotating Machinery Monitoring.- Quality, Reliability, Health and Safety.- Inspection of Re-manufactured Gearboxes Using Noise Analysis.- Reliability of Aircraft High Lift Devices.- A Design Study of a Production Centrifuge with Respect to Maintainability and Condition Monitoring.- A Personal Computer Based Burn-in System.- Development of a Micro-computer Based System for On-line Monitoring of the Reliability Characteristics of a Recycle Gas Compressor.- A Fiscal and Process Controller for a Hardboard Mill.- The Assessment of Availability through Simulation.- Automatic Environmental Monitoring.- A Supervisory Officer’s Guide to Effective Interviewing/Counselling of Personnel Suspected of Having an Alcohol Dependency Problem.- Plant and Process Health Monitoring.- System for Real Time Process Monitoring and Adaptive Control during CNC Hole Drilling.- Plant Health Monitoring Using a Turbine Flowmeter.- Real Time Monitoring of Roll Cooling Water Flow Rate.- Health Monitoring of Motorised Valve Actuators and Similar Devices.- Blanking Process Characterization Using Acoustic Emission.- A Monitor for the Cooling System of a Large Electrical Generator.- Pump Performance — Its Application to Condition Monitoring.- The Monitoring of the Alignment of Continuous Casting Machines.- Application of Expert Systems in COMADEM.- The Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring of Aircraft Engines.- Power System Network Loadflow Management Using Fuzzy Knowledge-based Expert System.- Towards Unmanned Manufacture: Applications of an Expert System.- Expert Systems Applied to Gas Turbine Condition Monitoring.- Post Flight Analysis of EH 101 Helicopter Maintenance Data.- A Strategy of Knowledge Elicitation for the Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes.- Computerised Technical Documentation.- A Diagnostic Expert System which Generates Explanations.- The Application of Expert Systems and Computer Simulation Technologies to Process Monitoring and Control.- Computer-assisted Analysis of Evoked Transients.- Information/Data Management.- Development of Computer-aided Data Acquisition, Control and Analysis System (CADACAS) for Remote Condition Monitoring.- Data Acquisition System for High Strain Fatigue Testing.- On Maintaining and Reasoning with Incomplete Information.- Decision Support Systems for Manufacturing Management.- Concurrent System Behaviour.- Condition-based Maintenance Management.- Inspect or Monitor? — How to choose Maintenance Policy by Matrix Algebre.- Maintenance Management Technique for Small-sized Road Construction Companies.- Condition-based Maintenance System Engineering.- Effective Machinery Fault Diagnosis Avoids Unnecessary Gearbox Maintenance (Case Study).- Automatic Condition Monitoring in the Hot Strip Mill of Rautaruukki Oy Raahe Steel Works.- On-line Surveillance for Predictive Maintenance in a Hazardous Environment.- Cost-effective Condition Monitoring.- Debris Counting for Consistent Monitoring.- Monitoring Liquid Levels.- Why Put Up with Bearing Failures?.- Computerised Maintenance Scheme for a Process Industry Using Monte-Carlo Simulation Technique.- The Fundamentals of, and the Application of Computers to, Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance.- The Use of Thermography in Industrial Predictive Maintenance.- Set Vibration Alarm Levels without Guesswork.- Advances in Instrumentation and Control Technology.- Sampling Techniques for Monitoring Sinusoidal Waveforms.- Surface Temperature and Heat Flow Measurement.- High Quality Non-contact Measurement Using Capacitance Gauges.- Analysis of Sigma Delta Modulators.- Dynamic Tip Clearance Measurements in Axial Flow Compressors.- A Portable Scanning Laser Vibrometer for Surface Vibration Analysis.- Clean Window Design for Optical Access.- Numerical Solution of the Matrix Riccati Equation for a Time Variant Jet Engine System.- Non-linear Optimal Tracking Problem for Jet Engine Control.- Advances in Diagnostic Technology.- Technical Diagnostics of Shafts and Bearings by Analysing Relative Speeds.- Ferrogram Quantitive Analyser — Its Application in Industry.- Methods and Experiences in the Application of Technical Diagnosis for Prevention and Early Detection of Damages to Components of the Water-Steam-Cycle of Thermal Power Stations.- Energy Monitoring and Management.- An Experimental Facility for Investigation into the Control and Monitoring of Energy Consumption of VAV and CAV Air Conditioning Systems.- Advanced Control Techniques for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS).- Energy Management and Optimisation Using Adaptive Control Techniques.- Condition Monitoring of Offshore Structures and Installations.- Monitoring and Control of Unmanned Machinery at Sea.- Condition Monitoring for Fatigue — Implications of Fatigue Crack Shape.- Biofouling on Offshore Installations — An Impact and Monitoring Assessment.- Advances in Non-destructive Testing (NDT)/Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE).- The Monitoring of Industrial Processes Using Ultrasound.- Condition Monitoringof British Gas Pipelines.- Novel Application of COM ADEM Techniques.- Research on Quantitave Ferrography Technology.- Wear Detection of a Vane Using a Novel Flowmeter Phenomenon.- Condition Monitoring Using Conventional Process Instrumentation.- Condition Monitoring of Bends in Pneumatic Conveying Systems.- Stress Wave Sensing — A New Measurand for Condition Monitoring.- Novel Adaptive Control Schemes for Peripheral Milling.- A New Technique for Condition Monitoring of Rolling Element Bearings Using a Portable Data Collector.- Continuing Education and Training in COMADEM.- On Condition Monitoring and Maintenance.- Computer-based Training in Statistical Quality Control.- A Project to Examine the Use of Open Learning Techniques in COMADEM.- Author Index.